Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25 1/1]S2io: Multiqueue network device support implementation

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:25:49 +0100

> [Ram] I am assuming that this is with regards to msi-x interrupts. We

Yes. 

And avoiding bouncing locks for device state between CPUs.

> have done away with handling tx completion in the interrupt handler, and
> are instead handling them in the context of the transmit. The slow path,
> straggling transmit completions will be handled in the timer context.

Ok -- hopefully you don't have bad corner cases from this when the pipe
is not fully filled and then causing longer latencies on completion. 
Old NAPI sometimes suffered from such problems. 

-Andi